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If this post makes the front-page then I'll give 20% of the final sale price to charity/good cause (suggestions welcome) - whether or not any of you actually bid :) The auction end…

Sage advice. If you haven't done it yet you need to own something authoritative about yourself, e.g. yourname.com, or better yet yourname.tel, which is like a business card at the …

This Bill is even worse than feared - see London based Telnic's (.tel registry) response to the government informing them that the statutory instrument to seize managerial control …

I'd like to see more libraries in more languages for .tel domains (reading and writing DNS records, i.e. NAPTR/TXT/LOC), and more mobile apps too. It's an open platform, see: http:…

This is a really interesting discussion, spurred by Dave Winer's posts on the need for a global namespace for dispersing microblogging away from centralised services: http://www.sc…

With a little bit of creativity you can do a lot with language, e.g. there are hundreds of millions of names in each of the biggest namespaces (AOL/Gmail/Skype/etc). One shouldn't …

You're right, it doesn't, but see my other comment.

Why are you so disparaging about a company that's trying to innovate and make money? You can use NAPTR/LOC/TXT records for any domain name you like, providing you have sufficient c…

.tel is about using existing infrastructure (the DNS) to resolve contact information. Will it make phone numbers as inconsequential to the experience of communication as IP address…

Google Wave?

This is totally contrary to what was said last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682790 I'm very disappointed by their cack-handedness.

This is ridiculous. On Nov 21st 2008 a representative from Twitter said this, "There are certainly many applications out there that include Twitter as part of their name, but we pr…

Interesting idea and I can think of a novel interface for this. I upvoted you, and that's where by influence will end.. for now :)

There is an API so I believe your suggestion ought to be possible. Just to play devil's advocate though; wouldn't people overestimate Wolfram's capabilities and expect the bot to b…

I haven't been able to come up with any strong ideas, so I'd like to give this group the opportunity. It may be a fun exercise, or a nightmare, but either way it'll be something di…